It measures just six metres across, its boundary marked by a low bank of earth and stone edged with stone kerbs on both the inside and outside. At its highest, the bank rises only half a metre. It sits slightly proud of the surrounding ground, which is the main thing that sets it apart from the ordinary undulations of grazed farmland.

This is a barrow, a burial monument of a type found across Ireland and Britain, typically prehistoric in origin, though they were used across a long span of time. The kerbing here, lining both faces of the encircling bank, is a detail that speaks to deliberate construction rather than casual accumulation. On the north-western side there is a gap in the bank about half a metre wide. Whether this was an original entrance, the kind of formal opening sometimes seen in ring barrows, or simply the result of later disturbance is uncertain. The ambiguity is genuinely unresolved, and that uncertainty is part of what makes the monument interesting rather than frustrating. Small, understated monuments like this one are often overlooked in favour of more dramatic earthworks, but they account for a significant portion of what actually survives of prehistoric funerary activity in the Irish landscape.